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Resolute
Resolute may refer to: Geography * Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, a hamlet * Resolute Bay, Nunavut * Resolute Mountain, Alberta, Canada Military operations * Operation Resolute, the Australian Defence Force contribution to patrolling Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone * Operation Resolute (Balkans), the British portion of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ships * , various Royal Navy ships and other vessels * , various US Navy ships, other vessels and a floating drydock * USCGC ''Resolute'' (WMEC-620), a United States Coast Guard cutter * USRC ''Resolute'' (1867), a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1872 * CSS ''Resolute'', a Confederate States Navy tugboat during the American Civil War * , a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper launched in 1953 * RCGS ''Resolute'', an Antarctic and Arctic cruise ship * ''Resolute'' (yacht), a contender in the 1920 America's Cup * ''Resolute'' (schooner), sunk by a German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute Desk
The ''Resolute'' desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship . The desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. HMS ''Resolute'' was abandoned in the Arctic waterway Tariyunnuaq in 1854 while searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost expedition. It was found in 1855 floating in Davis Strait by ''George Henry'', an American whaling ship. ''Resolute'' was repaired and returned to the United Kingdom as a gesture of goodwill from the United States. The ship was decommissioned in 1879, broken up, and a competition was held to design and build a piece of furniture from i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute, Nunavut
Resolute or Resolute Bay ( iu, ᖃᐅᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ, translit=Qausuittuq, lit=place with no dawn, italic=no) is an Inuit hamlet on Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is situated at the northern end of Resolute Bay and the Northwest Passage and is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region. Resolute is one of Canada's northernmost communities and is second only to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island ( Alert and Eureka are more northerly but are not considered towns; rather, military outposts and weather stations). It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of . As in most other northern communities, the roads and most of the terrain are all gravel. It is also the closest transit location to Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, and by extension, the most well-preserved crater on Earth - the Haughton impact crater, that formed about 31 million years ago. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census conduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute Forest Products
Resolute Forest Products (French: ''Produits forestiers Résolu''), formerly known as AbitibiBowater Inc., is a Canada-headquartered pulp and paper company. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Resolute was formed in 2007 by the merger of Bowater and Abitibi-Consolidated. At the time, AbitibiBowater was the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, and the eighth largest in the world. On 1 July 2012, the company name changed to Resolute Forest Products. History On 29 January 2007, Bowater Inc and Abitibi-Consolidated announced they would be merging to create AbitibiBowater. The merger created the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, and the eighth largest in the world. On 16 April 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and similar protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act in Canada, eventually reporting debt of about US$6 billion. The company won court approval for an injection of $206 million to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute Bay
Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Parry Channel on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay with Resolute Bay Airport to the northwest. The Inuit associated with Resolute Bay are called ''Qausuittuq'' and the population of the hamlet in the 2006 census was 229. On the western shore, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the Communications Research Centre Canada operated a launch site for sounding rockets. Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types Black Brant and Boosted Arcas were launched. File:Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.png, Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada. File:Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.png, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection. File:Resolute Bay 1 1997-08-02.jpg, Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USCGC Resolute (WMEC-620)
USCGC ''Resolute'' (WMEC-620) is a United States Coast Guard Medium Endurance Cutter, medium endurance cutter. History The Coast Guard's first cutter ''Resolute'' was a top-sail schooner built and commissioned in 1867. This first ''Resolute'' was homeported in Key West, Florida, and took on the missions of smuggling interdiction as well as search and rescue. The current cutter ''Resolute'' is very different in size and construction but the missions remain the same. The sixth of sixteen s, ''Resolute'' was the first of her class to be powered by two Alco-B diesel engines. ''Resolutes keel was laid at the United States Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland, in May 1965. She was commissioned 8 December 1966. Since that time she has seen several different homeports including San Francisco, California; Alameda, California; Astoria, Oregon; and her current home port of St. Petersburg, Florida. ''Resolute'' has been decorated on several occasions. She has done well during Refreshe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCGS Resolute
''Heritage Adventurer'' is an ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship built in 1991 by Rauma shipyard in Finland. She was originally named ''Society Adventurer'', but after Discoverer Reederei was unable to take delivery of the vessel due to financial troubles, the completed ship was laid up at the shipyard for almost two years. In 1993, she was acquired by Hanseatic Tours (which later merged with Hapag-Lloyd) and renamed ''Hanseatic''. In 2018, she was chartered to One Ocean Expeditions and renamed ''RCGS Resolute''. In 2021, she was acquired by Heritage Expeditions and, following an extensive refit, given her current name. General characteristics ''Heritage Adventurer'' is long overall and between perpendiculars, has a beam of and draws of water with a displacement of . Her gross tonnage is 8,445; net tonnage 2,573; and deadweight tonnage 1,177 tonnes. The ship's hull and propulsion system are strengthened for navigation in ice-covered waters according to the Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute
Resolute may refer to: Geography * Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, a hamlet * Resolute Bay, Nunavut * Resolute Mountain, Alberta, Canada Military operations * Operation Resolute, the Australian Defence Force contribution to patrolling Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone * Operation Resolute (Balkans), the British portion of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ships * , various Royal Navy ships and other vessels * , various US Navy ships, other vessels and a floating drydock * USCGC ''Resolute'' (WMEC-620), a United States Coast Guard cutter * USRC ''Resolute'' (1867), a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1872 * CSS ''Resolute'', a Confederate States Navy tugboat during the American Civil War * , a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper launched in 1953 * RCGS ''Resolute'', an Antarctic and Arctic cruise ship * ''Resolute'' (yacht), a contender in the 1920 America's Cup * ''Resolute'' (schooner), sunk by a German U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute (yacht)
''Resolute'' was a yacht designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters to contend the 1914 America's Cup. Design ''Resolute'' was the last Cup defender to be designed by Herreshoff. *Overhang forward - *Overhang aft - *Fore triangle base - *Boom - *Deck to topmast - *Lead - 65tons History ''Resolute'' was christened by Grace Vanderbilt and launched on April 25, 1914. In the 1914 America's Cup defender selection trials, skippered by Charles Francis Adams III, she beat '' Vanitie'' and ''Defiance''. In so doing, she beat the America's Cup course record off Sandy Hook by sailing 30 miles in 3:16:41. However, the outbreak of World War I caused the America's Cup races for 1914 to be postponed. The race was finally held during the 1920 America's Cup. In 1920 the America's Cup was reconvened and ''Resolute'' again prevailed in selection races before successfully defending the Cup in July, once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute Mountain
Resolute Mountain is located in David Thompson Country, western Alberta, Canada, 12 km north of Saskatchewan River Crossing. Its line parent is Mount Cline located 2 kilometres to the east. Resolute has two main peaks, Lion and Lioness. They are each about 3150 m high. Both peaks are glaciated on their northern slopes. Resolute was first ascended in 1958 by A. Hober and E. Hopkins. The easiest route up Resolute is accessible from Alberta Highway 11 Alberta Provincial Highway No. 11, commonly referred to as Highway 11 and officially named the David Thompson Highway, is a provincial highway in central Alberta, Canada. It runs for from Highway 93 at Saskatchewan River Cross ..., where it crosses Thompson creek. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite web , url = https://opentopomap.org/#map=13/52.07328/-116.65936 , title = Topographic map of Resolute Mountain , website = opentopomap.org , access-date=2021-10-24 Three-thousanders of Alberta Alberta' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSS Resolute
CSS ''Resolute'' was a tugboat built in 1858 at Savannah Georgia as the ''Ajax'' which served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. ''Resolute'' entered Confederate service in 1861 and operated as a tow boat, transport, receiving ship, and tender to the sidewheeler on the coastal and inland waters of Georgia and South Carolina. On 5–6 November 1861, ''Resolute'', under Lieutenant John Pembroke Jones, CSN, in company with , , and ''Savannah'', under the overall command of Flag Officer Josiah Tattnall III, CSN, offered harassing resistance to a much larger Union fleet preparing to attack Confederate strongholds at Port Royal Sound, S.C. During November 7, while ''Resolute'' had been sent to Savannah with dispatches, the Union fleet under Flag Officer Samuel Francis du Pont, USN, pounded the Confederate Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard until they were abandoned. Upon her return, ''Resolute'' helped evacuate the garrison of Fort Walker and then returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC Resolute (1867)
USRC ''Resolute'', was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1872. She was the only Revenue Cutter Service ship to bear the name."Resolute, 1867", U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft Index, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office History Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by J.W. Lynn, ''Resolute'' was commissioned in 1867 and served her entire career homeported at Key West, Florida Key West ( es, Cayo Hueso) is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Sigsbee Park, Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Isla .... She was the second of the ''Active''-class of six revenue schooners built at three different yards. ''Resolute'' and her sister ship , also built by Lynn, were among the last strictly sail-powered cutters built for the Revenue Service. Notes Citations References * * * * Ships of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resolute (schooner)
SV ''Resolute'' was a Colombian schooner that the German submarine U-172 shelled and sank on 23 June 1942 in the Caribbean Sea. Construction ''Resolute'' was built as a schooner at an unknown date. Her size and speed are also unknown. She was assessed at . Sinking ''Resolute'' was stopped by the German submarine U-172 at 17:10 pm on 23 June 1942 in the Caribbean Sea near Saint Andrews and Old Providence The Providence Island colony was established in 1630 by English Puritans on what is now the Colombian Department of San Andrés and Providencia, about east of the coast of Nicaragua. Although intended to be a model Puritan co .... Afterwards the U-boat sank the abandoned vessel with hand grenades and gunfire from her deck gun. The attack and sinking of the ''Resolute'' still claimed the lives six of her ten crew members; the four survivors later claimed that they were machine-gunned after having abandoned the ship, but this was apparently a misinterpreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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